(14 Aug 2025)
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Washington – 13 August 2025
1. Cutaway of reporter asking question UPSOUND: “Given the National Guard, the border control, ICE agents, they’re not trained in local policing. What specific steps are you taking to ensure that young people are not put in harm’s way with these types of operations?”
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“Yeah, what they are trained in is common sense and they’re very tough people and they have great common sense. And they are highly trained. I heard the mayor of LA was saying oh, they’re not trained this way.”
++WHITE FLASH++
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“So the bottom line is these (National Guard) are very tough people that are trained in a thing called common sense, and they’re also trained in doing what we’re talking about right now. And you watch crimes stop, but you wouldn’t have Los Angeles. It wouldn’t be existent today. We would have had to cancel the Olympics if I let that go on.”
++WHITE FLASH++
4. Cutaway of reporter asking question UPSOUND: “On DC crime. Are you concerned at all that some federal officers that are helping DC police might be being pulled away from other high priority assignments–”
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
“Like what? Like what? (“Like terrorism”) Oh, really, terrorism? They’ll stop terrorism as part of what they’re doing right now. No. The soldiers that we have, first of all, we have plenty of them long beyond what you have here. We’re just using a very small force. You know, in Washington, D.C., they have thousands of police. They have a lot of police, but the police weren’t allowed to do their job. We have a lotta great ones, and you have some that weren’t so good, to be honest. But they weren’t allowed to do their job. But now they are allowed to their job, and essentially we’ve — it’s only two days, but you look at the numbers already, they’re dropping. And no, they are not being pulled off for anything.”
++EDIT ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
President Trump said he had no qualms about the possible national security risks from his reassigning of officers for the FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to deal with local crime in Washington.
"Like what? Like what?" Trump said.
A reporter suggested that moving federal officials could compromise efforts to stop terrorism.
"Oh, really, terrorism?" Trump said. "They’ll stop terrorism as part of what they’re doing right now."
Trump also touted his decision to call in National Guard to California earlier this year.
The president said that he saved Los Angeles by calling in the National Guard earlier this year, and that the city would have burned down without his intervention. He said that if he had allowed protests to continue without intervention, he would have had to cancel the Olympics.’
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